A wonderful three-day weekend - one afternoon of it spent beading, chatting, laughing, etc. with my friends and fellow beadaholics at Bead Street! I chose one of Eileen's new neon shades of two-hole superduos (magenta-ish) for this project below and oohhh la laaaa. It's absolutely a jaw dropper color in person, at least I think so! The pattern uses superduos, 8.0, 11.0 and 15.0 sbs, plus 4mm fire polish. I added a 3mm round with 15.0 on either side down the middle to make the flowers pop, plus added drops to my closure loop. I've gotta say, that's my favorite signature finish to any pattern -- and depending on the button used, it makes getting the bracelet on and off much easier. |
| A beautiful pattern named "Annelies Bracelet", designed by Ellad Des, and taught by Sandy Taylor at Bead Street. |
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| A couple other projects I played with as time permitted over the Memorial Day Holiday. A wonderfully fun change of pace -- a Happy Mango Beads project designed by Erin Siegel for HMB. The bright colors, wood rounds and brass Ethiopian beads grabbed me, plus it's multi-wear -- as a double drape necklace or a multi stack bracelet. I like it best as a bracelet, but love the versatility. All done on 1.5 mm leather with fun heart attached anywhere you want! |
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| And, last but not least, another casual wrap bracelet on 1.5 leather using wonderful crow glass beads (and czech donut rounds) with that same darlin' heart dangle -- because the glass can get heavy, I only did two strands. |
